Victim Finds His Stolen Car

July 24, 1986|By David Uhler, Staff writer

FORT LAUDERDALE -- An irate Joseph DeMarco supplied the detective work, but police officers made the arrest on Wednesday after DeMarco tracked a man suspecting of stealing his car to a hospital parking lot.

Police charged David C. Phillips, 19, of Oakland Park with grand theft after they said they watched him climb into DeMarco`s car in the parking lot at Broward General Medical Center and start to drive away, officials said.

The car`s ignition lock had been changed, but DeMarco`s key still fit the door locks, police said.

Phillips, who lives in the 100 block of Northeast 41st Street, told officers that an acquaintance had sold him the car, police said.